Identity Theft Lesson.
1. Give the definition of identity theft? Identity Theft is a very serious crime. Is when a criminal uses another person’s personal information that person’s identity. This person gets your personal information without making you knowing.They can get your credit cars, your number….and many other personal information.
2. How many people suffer from identity theft, each year, worldwide? Make a hyperlink to the page from where you obtained your stats. About 9 million americans are beeing affected each year. Nearly 9.000 are been solved. (This is the only information I had found, after researching.) http://www.becker-posner-blog.com/archives/2006/09/on_identity_the.html
3. What is character defamation? "Character defamation is the communication that makes a false claim, expressively stated or implied to be factual,it can affect individual business, product, group, government or nation." (Source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defamation 2008)
4. Are there currently any defamation of character lawsuits going on in Spain? Give a minimum of three sentences describing the lawsuit and include a hyperlink to the article. I have not found any information that concerns Spain.
5. What are the dangers of posting videos on Youtube, or any related site? Give a minimum of 5. Posting videos in youtube or in aother related site can be a very serious problem. The person that sees the video can get your personal stuff, can go to your school or try to contact you, from msn, saying he nows your friends and wants to meet you. Also it can be a theft that can ener to your house and try to steel…
6. Find two newspaper reports or stories that discuss today’s dangers of internet use, such as chatting, youtube, etc. Summarize these articles in your own words and put a hyperlink at the bottom of the summary to the article. 1.)Chatting by trying to know someone can be a very serious problem. You can talk to a person through msn or any kind of chat trying to find out a friend or a new boyfriend, without knowing what can happen to you if this person is a theft. They lie and wants your personal inforamtion and fotos. http://www.dangersofinternetdating.com/
2.) Not only you can be lied or some stuff I´ve said before but your computer can be cleaned and they can send you a virus that can damaged your personal stuff and your on computer. http://www.internetdangerreport.com/
7. How can images damage your school’s reputation or your own? Give an example of a situation that you have seen that could have been damaging had it been put on youtube. It can damaged your school reputation because it can give some images like bullying, destroying school property, not making school rules and don´t respecting your school. Also the images can damaged your own by having an serious infraction or expelled by doing things that are not excepted. On the youtube videos I´ve seen bullying in an irrispectfully way.
8. If you wish to put something on Youtube that involves a school related project what steps must be taken? You must have the permission of each one of the parents that are beeing filmed, you must have a paper with each one of them signed and then put it in youtube. Also I think school permission because it has some focus of it.
9. Do we need to protect ourselves from others only, or also from ourselves? I think from both: From others by making them see that putting videos where you are on it without your parents permission is bad and when they are filming try not to be on it. Also from ourselves by not putting personal informations and videos in youtube, for example.
10. How can computers been found? How can the police find out that your computer was responsible for posting something illegal? When they see some videos and discoveres that you dont have the permission of the kids parents.
11. How can you protect yourself from stalkers or pedifiles finding you on the internet? By not putting ANY kind of personal information or videos that you are on it on youtube or in any kind of website.
12. Is technology creating unforseen problems in our lives, give at least two examples in areas beyond identity theft and defamation of character, give at least two examples of other areas. Technology is getting better each years and makes new website were people put their fotos and videos. In identity theft they can get your number of credit card and cant spend some money with it. Also when you are on the street and you give your msn to someone in the mobile phone or just talking to your friend this person can contact you. Defamation of character can be when you are doing a speech on your work and a person that doesn´t work with you or maybe yes can take information about what you are talking, the same as in reunions. Another problem can be steeling…





